Hoppy Easter Everyone!

Happy Easter everyone.... Hope everyone has their Easter baskets ready for the Easter bunny to come...I bought a small ham, sweet potatoes, rolls and a very tiny egg shaped cake for our Easter dinner. That should be pretty traditional, right?!

We had a really nice trip this past week to College Station and Austin.  Scott had a seminar for a week in Austin, and Heidi had parents week in College Station.  We were never able to coordinate making it for Travis and could this time for Heidi. We got there in time to watch a football game, have a few beers (cokes for me) and baseball game on Saturday, eat pizza for supper and hangout at Heidi's.  Then on Sunday, the usual parent's "duty": fill the fridge and fill the pantry!  After that, we headed to Austin for Scott's seminar. Monday was his birthday and we ate at a really nice restaurant on the side of a hill on Lake Travis called The Oasis.  We sat outside on one of the patios to eat and watch the sunset.  It was a really nice evening and drive out there.   My next adventure was on Tuesday mid-day to Salado to go visit a stamp store called Stamp Salado.  We had a great trip, I had lunch with two of my Texas LOSTie friends, Suz and Mels, had supper with my sister and her husband, and rekindled some old friendships at Scott's seminar.  It was a great week.

While I was gone, my pharmacy called to say that my new prescription had been approved.... YIPPEE!  So as soon as we got home yesterday and had unloaded the truck, I ran (drove!) to the drugstore, got my prescription and it was NOT the one I thought it was going to be.  It is a type of medicine like I was on in the very beginning of my migraine history that quit working on them.  Needless to say, I was VERY disappointed. I took them and will try them, but am afraid that they won't work since the others in their "line" didn't work in the past.  I'm afraid I might have reverted back to year one in my meds.  That is a year in my life that I remember nothing about.  I don't want to lose another year in my life. 

Well, on another note.... Remember those cards that I mailed off to the Papercrafts Stamping Royalty contest?  Well, they released their winners this week.... and, guess who was NOT on the list.... yup, little ole me!  So, I can upload my cards here... I was so proud of them too.  Guess it's my opinion against theirs!  So today here is the first one.

This is a thank you note that I put together one day, just playing around. I over-stamped some designer paper that I had and it came out really nice, at least I thought so!  I stamped the Eiffel Tower and some postage stamps on the paper, tied brown ribbon around the paper and added the merci tag to the front.

Well, that's it for today.... I've got to go do more laundry!  It seems like it takes much longer to wash it than it did to get it dirty.... why is that? hmmm!

Hugs to everyone and have a Happy Easter!

Tuesday is a great day...

I hope everyone has had a great week so far.  After my weekend and Monday, Tuesday was a great day for me!  I tried one of my new sample migraine pills yesterday at work, and IT WORKED!  I didn't have to go home, I did have to close the blinds, wear my sunglasses, but it all passed within an hour and I could continue to work!   That is such a wonderful thing.  YEAH for me!

Now to show you the beautiful (I think it is anyway!) card that I made for my wonderful friend who turned 60 yesterday. She loved it too... 





Left inside.



Front of Card, tied with at tuile bow and the

paper is from DCWV, Mariposa.  I love the butterflies that are in it.  It is so happy and cheerful.  The insides are done with scraps from other pages in  the collection.  Thanks for looking.



Right inside

I was very proud how it turned out. I embossed the front with one of my cuddle bug folders and then sanded the part that is on the black to give it a weathered look. The left inside was scraps of papers left over from other   projects too.  The solid green got run through a cuttle bug folder too and the right side was just corner punched and then stamped with the scroll and the phrase.  The spratic little butterflies were cut out from scraps and glued on too. Hope you enjoy and get ideas ....  Thanks for looking.

Hugs all around,

Barb

Altrusa's Annual Spring Style Show Today

Just a quick thought or two before I need to get ready to go to our annual Style Show.  My part this year was to make chocolate dipped strawberries and sugared grapes.  YUMMO!  We are doing desserts this year instead of a brunch to see if it will help our numbers in the audience increase.  It appears to be a sort of dying event... not too many are interested in this sort of thing anymore, but we keep trying.  Our other fundraiser, Soup with Mrs. Claus, is a BIG hit at Christmas time.  We do it in conjunction with the downtown Christmas parade and it starts the Christmas season here.  It's a family event too. We serve two different soups and the kids can have their picture taken with Mrs. Claus. Well, it's just about time to head to the church and get my strawberries and grapes to their appointed showtime!  I'll be back later to write some more for the day and hopefully upload a new card too.

Well, the weather played it's trump card on me and I did not make it to the style show.  Had to call one of my BFFs to come get my items as I was in no shape to attend. Scott was even called out for mutual aid in Lefors on a fire.  I took my third layer of meds and they whipped my butt today, but now it's been 5 hours later and I am beginning to feel a bit human again. This is the first time I've had to wear my sunglasses inside the house!  The sun is just too bright for me and I don't have curtains on most of our windows, but do have the shades pulled where I can.

I almost feel like making a card though... At least I'm thinking about  it!  That really was my full intent of this blog when I began it several years ago, but it has almost become a journal for me to release my frustrations about my health issues when there isn't anyone around who knows how I feel. It's not my life anymore for a while. Okay, enough already! 

Hugs,
Barb

It's me, still pluggin' away...

Hello everyone who is keeping up with me... I have made a few cards lately.  Sent eight off to the Papercrafts magazine for their 2011 Royalty contest!  Like I have a chance, but you won't know if you don't try, right?! So, after that is all settled, then I can post pictures of those cards, I don't think I should before hand.  I have made some for sale, and when I can get my eyes not so sleepy, I'll get them uploaded for y'all to see.  If I'm not too windy tonight, maybe I'll do one or two tonight yet.

Update on my headaches... I've missed alot of work this past month and so my doctor wanted to see me in his office last week before my next scheduled appointment... so off we trecked to the doctor!  He had blood taken and ordered an MRI.  I told him I hope that something shows up, somewhere, because this has been going on 3 years now and it's no fun anymore!  But I did learn a little secret about when to take my night-time/evening meds so that I don't wake up in such a fog.  So, that was exciting! No results yet, but I don't expect any for several days.  He also tried increasing one of my meds and one of the rare side effects was an increased heart rate.... well, guess what I got?  Take a WILD guess.... YUP! The second time in my life that I can remember that I got one of the odd/rare side effects!  My rate goes from it's normal 60-65bmp to 96 first thing in the morning to 122bmp when I get home from work and have done nothing strenuous all day.  Go figure! I quit the extra increase.   I figure I will suffer the headaches vs. a heart attack.

Okay, back to card talk... I'm so stoked up about making cards, I love to send them and I'd  love to be able to make some extra money selling some... still working on that angle... gotta find my outlet on that part.


 Here is the one I made for a co-worker in Amarillo that has been out after having surgery. I love it so much and wish I had more of that paper to make more!  I even cut out one of the butterflies and glued it over one on the bottom and made it three-D.  This paper didn't need much help to look super on it's own!  It's called The Mariposa Stack by DCVW,  so bright and cheerful papers.


Well, guess that's all for this time around.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening.   I am, with what's left of it!  I'm going to finish a couple of cards I have started....

Hugs all around,
Barb